At first sight, the rolling steam table located at the far end of the lower level of the chic, all-white Puma store in downtown Manhattan looks like it was left there from a staff party the night before, and is awaiting pick up from the catering company.
But as one approaches the seemingly out-of-place food service device and sees that its square metal food pans are in fact filled with the varying swatches and components that when stitched together, make a sneaker, one instantly reckons the odd juxtaposition of sneaker design and a la carte food service, and it becomes clear that this is a very cool idea in Sneakerland: mix and match the items to create a pair of self-customized sneakers.
For each of the 20 different parts that make up a …
Well the boring ones anyway.
The often lampooned R&B singer reached a settlement to end a zoning dispute with the Chicago suburb Olympia Fields. He's still supposed to go to trial on those child pornography charges someday, but nothing's on the schedule just yet.
Whenever the child porn case does get rolling again, Kelly better hope he fares a bit better than in his recent dispute. That one ended with Kelly tearing down the guard house he'd had built without a permit and paying Olympia Fields $20,000 in legal fees. (I told you it was boring)
The much more serious and comical issues he's facing are stalled as the trial for the porn charges isn't planned just yet. He was arrested on those charges back in 2002. This mess with the guard house just started last spring. There's really …
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There were plenty of wild verses and equally frenzied cuts as prodigious MC-DJ duo Eyedea & Abilities took the Abbey Pub’s stage in Chicago Saturday night. Reunited after a two-year hiatus, the boys from Minneapolis seemed energized as they worked through new, old and spontaneous songs.
The sell out crowd seemed to know all the words when E&A went by the book on cuts like “Man Vs. Ape” “Exhausted Love” and “Paradise” but the duo spent much of their set testing out new tracks some of which came together on the spot. With either Abilities cutting up a beat and Eyedea jumping in with a rhyme, or vise versa, they knocked the rust off their rapport and came together to trade notions and solos.
Eyedea’s rhyme style is still completely untamed with cadences more inspired by Coltrane’s horn than …
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